rubber cleaning fluid

[cassio]

I can't find any rubber cleaning fluid. I live in Australia and want to clean my pinch roller in my tascam 488. In australia, the tascam cleaning kit is not allowed as it is treated as a volite chemical. Can anybody help? I can get head cleaning fluid but not rubber cleaning fluid. Thanks.

 

[Bass Ninja]

Hey cassio, Musician's Friend sells rubber cleaner as well as head cleaner. They have it in their catalog so check their website.

 

[hixmix]

Have you tried e-mailing Tascam with your question? If you bought your 488 new in Austrailia Tascam must have something that is available legally there.

 

[hixmix]

Bass Ninja-

Cassio knows where to get it but he's saying there are restrictions that prohibit it from being imported to Austrailia because it's classified as a volitile chemical.

 

[R C Sniffer]

Uh... I got some of that rubber cleaner... sniff sniff... stuff, but you can't have it.
When I go without it :sniff: for a while, I start to shake and see pink elephants...

 

[hixmix]

Hey RC, are you HC Sniffers brother?

 

[drstawl]

Rubber usually holds up really well to anhydrous isopropanol (industrial strength rubbing alcohol) but I'd ask TASCAM before
doing anything. Even the 90% stuff sold at
drug stores should do the trick.
Failing that, a few ounces of Everclear will do the job!

 

[Tapehead]

I thought I answered this somewhere else, or maybe rubber cleaner is getting to me. The stuff you use is Rubber Renue and you can get it at VCR repair stores. And yes it smells like the devil's armpit after an all night TaiBo session in a sulphur pit.

 

[moo]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by cassio:
I can't find any rubber cleaning fluid. I live in Australia and want to clean my pinch roller in my tascam 488. In australia, the tascam cleaning kit is not allowed as it is treated as a volite chemical. Can anybody help? I can get head cleaning fluid but not rubber cleaning fluid. Thanks.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I went to an electronics supply store and they sold me a small can of stuff called Roller and Blanket Cleaner. It works.But they warned me about ventilation big time!
Hope this helps